Auckland OLY1 chat - archive

[g.walker]

I was also freaking out bout the net <100 places for undergrads, but honestly im not worried bout the interview at all anymore. IDK why but from the way they put it, I really think its gonna be easy, i just hope im not underestimating the situation here

 

[lordgarlic]

Wow, last nights med admissions lecture. 196 overall seats, up to 45 mapas, 30 rompe, + 1/3 grad leaves undergrads with only about 76 seats :cry: Getting in is gonna be a b*tch

you see, 45 for MAPAS is bloody ridiculous. As is 30 for ROMPE. It has never been proven that ROMPE kids are more inclined to go back to the country to practice post graduation. More importantly, a lot of ROMPE kids only do primary school rurally then go board in posh city schools for their secondary education. blasphemy i say

 

[Leafie]

Every time i study Biochem i have an impulse to tear my book out! Gosh do they honestly expect us to remember all those S*ting reactions, not to mention the useless structures> I tried the past exams and there is like 0 question that i can do without looking back to my notes(n)

 

[g.walker]

Im thinking of just focusing on the qualitative aspect of biochem and ignoring all the crap about memorising the structures, they're only worth like 6 marks in total, so instead of learning how to draw 50 chemikals i think we're better off focusing on what matters

 

[silentghostx]

Wow, last nights med admissions lecture. 196 overall seats, up to 45 mapas, 30 rompe, + 1/3 grad leaves undergrads with only about 76 seats :cry: Getting in is gonna be a b*tch

wow that's a huge increase in the intake. last year they told us it was 155 overall seats and 30 MAPAS and 25 ROMPE, but our actual class number is around 180... altho it could be the international students making up the rest... but don't quote me on that.

 

[ChickenPie]

Any idea what the Otago allocations are like? Similar?

 

[skyglow1]

This years class is something like 200+ domestic spots, with about 3/4 as health scis and 1/4 as graduates/other category. Rest of class is international students. Total of about 240 in the class. Increasing by 25 spots next year I think?

[Edit]Oh more than that then 30+ spots increase.

 

[g.walker]

Huh, thats pretty awesome. is MBChB over there still interview-less?

On another note, I HATE OPTICS. the notes are so god dam disorganised

 

[greenglacier]

That's right - no interview for med at Otago. Does mean that the other aspects are more important though - UMAT has a 1/3 weighting (and they actually use your mark, not your system of assigning a grade). Also, grades count for 2/3 (and they use your mark, not your grade - so a 97% for a paper is way different from a 90%).

Total domestic spots for admission into 2010 are 234. The distribution of places within that hasn't been made public though...

 

[skyglow1]

I still think they use grades not marks:

"Selection into Medicine is determined by a combination of an applicant’s grade point average (GPA) in HSFY (two-thirds weighting) and weighted UMAT result (one-third weighting)"

If they go through the trouble of making it so clear that it's the grade point average, I'd think they'd actually use it, and I doubt they don't know what grade point average means.

 

[red]

[offtopic]Optics notes are so fun to carry! All bulky and full of blanks [/offtopic]

 

[greenglacier]

I still think they use grades not marks:

"Selection into Medicine is determined by a combination of an applicant’s grade point average (GPA) in HSFY (two-thirds weighting) and weighted UMAT result (one-third weighting)"

If they go through the trouble of making it so clear that it's the grade point average, I'd think they'd actually use it, and I doubt they don't know what grade point average means.

I know, but there was that email...

Besides, apparently "GPA" can have all sorts of meanings, and even if they did use the officicial definition, they'd then have to apply some sort of weighting factor, which makes no sense...

Meh, doesn't really change the fundamental situation though

 

[SASOL]

[OFFTOPIC]I like nipples(yy)[/OFFTOPIC]

 

[hamlock]

Good luck everyone for physics!

[OFFTOPIC]Oh, and g.walker, this set of blog posts may be of interest to you. Check it out after exams. https://jeffreyleow.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/house-101-pilot-review/[/OFFTOPIC]

 

[g.walker]

Good luck guys, lets not make this test as miserable a failure as the first

[offtopic]lol hamlock, some people just have too much time on their hands, very interesting tho[/offtopic]

 

[whizz_pat]

you see, 45 for MAPAS is bloody ridiculous. As is 30 for ROMPE. It has never been proven that ROMPE kids are more inclined to go back to the country to practice post graduation. More importantly, a lot of ROMPE kids only do primary school rurally then go board in posh city schools for their secondary education. blasphemy i say

Indeed. Together, MAPAS and ROMPE make up around 40% of the total intake.

I would be alot more comfortable with a socioeconomic disadvantage based entry scheme rather than MAPAS, and have bonded entry schemes rather than ROMPE, as they do across the ditch.

 

[whizz_pat]

Good luck guys, lets not make this test as miserable a failure as the first

[offtopic]lol hamlock, some people just have too much time on their hands, very interesting tho[/offtopic]

I heard the average was barely above 50% for the first test.

 

[Leafie]

I heard the average was barely above 50% for the first test.

It was 52.30 to be exact. Good luck everyone!!

 

[ChickenPie]

This years class is something like 200+ domestic spots, with about 3/4 as health scis and 1/4 as graduates/other category. Rest of class is international students. Total of about 240 in the class. Increasing by 25 spots next year I think?

[Edit]Oh more than that then 30+ spots increase.

Any idea on MAPAS or ROMPE?

tbh I'm just wondering, I would assume there would be less MAPAS (maybe ROMPE too?) students at Otago and thus less places..

 

[g.walker]

Well, physics went smoothly, i hope my mark agrees in 2 days.

howd u guys find it?